We apparently need to start doing the same thing that the revolutionary colonists did when the British troops tried to denigrate them by calling them Yankee Doodles, which in the language of that day implied a flashy dressing effeminate man. The colonists responded by adopting it as a positive implication. You're damned right I'm anti-govt, especially anti-US govt. I'm not ashamed to admit it. This govt has destroyed our Constitution, destroyed our liberty, and appears to be bent on turning the country into a fascist, crony-capitalist country.

Touche.

Outstanding. Accurate. More truth in that sentence than most will admit.

If bankers were interested in a level playing field they would never have created the federal reserve bank and the income tax.

Government has only one legitimate function, which is to protect its citizens from all forms of coercion, foreign and domestic. In a truly free society, all structure, rules and laws could be encompassed in a booklet, 50 pages long or less.

Watter's World, a regular segment of the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, exposes just how ignorant a lot of Americans are. The approach is comic with bits from movies thrown in, but there are times when I got so creeped out by the blatant ignorance that I've picked up my remote and went channel surfing. I've picked out one of the less dumb examples. There's plenty of really stupid stuff to look for on the sidebar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdtk4uICx...

Many of our more than equal elite betters hold the law degrees that inspire others to make nasty jokes about their mortality. But there is hope. Even a community organizer who hides his education records is qualified to wreck the health care industry, deride his "phony scandals" and promise to make electricity costs skyrocket..

those who use the term are causing the number of anti-government people to increase in volume.

In the quote from Jefferson, "timid" could be replaced by "cowardly". Resistance to despots and tyranny takes courage as it has consequences as evidenced by the harassment received by those who oppose the policies of the administration.
A return to constitutional principles of government would involve returning to the states those powers given them in the Constitution and founding papers.
Not "anti-government", pro-Constitutional government. As it was intended.

The liberal-progressive agenda is to establish a new aristocracy ruled by self proclaimed "intellectual" elites. It is by dint of their "superior" education and moral compass that they are qualified to determine the "proper" activity of the great unwashed.

I absolutely agree.

The most insidious form of serfdom is that where the slave is kept ignorant of the weight of his own chains.

True, but corporations are not the cause of bad government as the USSR proves. Bad government is the cause of crony corporations.

Corporations are merely out to make a buck (investment => return), and their goal is to navigate the business climate in order to do that. When the government defines how they must do business, they really don't have much choice in the matter.

If we had a truly level playing field where regulations were a bare minimum and cronyism was exposed, the natural laws of the market would quickly set things straight. The only companies left standing would be those who provided good products and services and who paid a commensurate wage.

Yes, and they also want you to believe their regulatory schemes are a basic a part of government as are the police and the military. I've heard people call these socialist institutions.

Then again, Rand herself noted a lot of libertarians held police and the military no more legitimate than the regulators--and proposed a society defended only by vigilantes, private security services, and mercenary armies and navies.

My complaint about this article is its ultimate resting of everything bad on corporations. Big corporations are pawns or useful idiots for government. Mao and Stalin were quite good at producing a horrible government without the help of corporations.

Really great article, thank you for posting.

I hope the slur isn't really that common.
I'm pro-individual and pro-peace, or in their language, anti-gov't and anti-war.

Of course... the government is supposed to do all the thinking for us, so all we have to do is follow their benevolent orders like good serfs, and follow their path for us as sheep. If we dare not follow the benevolent government's kindly intentions for us - we are evil individualists, not helping the groupthink collective...